Painting Cotton Cloud

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Saw quite a lot of dramatic cloud this few days due to the monsoon season. It inspire me to start painting some cloud. So, I went to paint this happy cotton like cumulus cloud.

Below are screenshot of the progress/step. This isn’t really a full step by step tutorial, but should give you a clear view on how layering can help on painting clouds.

1) Paint the base sky color, I choose a cyan gradient.

2) Draw a base cloud shape. A scattering round brush would help on the smaller details. Or you can just use a custom brush.

3) Lock the layer transparency and paint darker shade of color near the edge of cloud which slowly fade to a brighter shade in the middle. A “texture/rough” blending will work better than a smooth blending.

4) Add another layer, draw another cloud shape which are slightly smaller than previous layer.